After spending our first day on a "guided" tour of the place and getting in touch with it, Hoathly Hill opened up like a flower for us and we ventured in a personal exploration of the grounds in search for a spot especially meaningful for each one of us.This spot happened to be the pond area for me, I was drawn here instictively by a certain wilderness anda secluded feel about the place though not inhospitable in any way.

The resulting picture is that combination of wild and tame, of ornamental and spontaneous that makes a garden such a magical place where the human factor meets the elements and co-creates with them something that wasn't there before... something that would soon disappear if the human element left the scene.

Opening myself up to the impressions this place evoked inside of me, forms and figures began to emerge within the intricacies of branches and leaves. And a theme. The up-surging and the bending energies, all of them flowing. What is will? and how do we exercise our will without becoming domeneering?